Today we continue our coverage of the Stormbringer Metal Festival (14/15 July 2023) – featuring Knight and Gallow. The guys can even tell you about two sets they played. André: Where are you from? And how long did you travel to get to the festival location? Was it your first time there? Nick: We’re from […]
We close this week’s coverage of Hell’s Heroes with an article and great photos from Marcus Hettlage, who travelled all the way from Germany to Texas to experience this terrific festival – a second time. (Feature image: Greyhawk) André: Where are you from? And how long did you travel to get to the festival location? […]
Today we continue with the second part of our live report from Hell’s Heroes V. Our reader Timothy Harris, who also provided us with the featured image, shares his thoughts with you. André: Where are you from? And how long did you travel to get to the festival location? Was it your first time there? […]
After a relatively long break, we are very happy to continue our Manilla Road Special today. This time we talked to Ryan Ohlson, guitarist in Knight & Gallow from Sacramento, a band that has already been featured on our blog several times. We hope you enjoy reading it. André: Would you classify Manilla Road as […]
We are always happy to present you playlists on our platform that befriended artists have put together for us. There will be many more of them in 2023! We start today with a very tasteful compilation by Pete Salatellis, guitarist for classic heavy metal band Zodiak, based in Montreal, Canada. Since Pete’s musical tastes are […]
Today we present you our favourite albums from the first half of the current year. Aidan: 1. Véhémence – Ordalies 2. Fer de Lance – The Hyperborean 3. Ash of Ashes – Traces 4. Vanaheim – Een verloren verhaal 5. Aara – Triade II: Hemera 6. Iron Griffin – Storm of Magic 7. Mamorlis – […]
Today we would like to present you our favourite albums from the first quarter of 2022. As you can see, some excellent records have already been released. In the meantime, albums that are released in April or May are also rotating heavily in our player. The second quarter promises to be at least as good! […]
You didn’t seriously think there would be an Epic Metal Blog Birthday Special for Aidan without Ryghär? If you did, you don’t know our blog that well… There is hardly any other band that my friend and colleague has been so intensively dealing with since the beginning of his blogging career. So it’s only fitting […]
Release: 17/03/2022 Knight and Gallow came to our attention back in 2020, when the guys from Sacramento released their promising demo Men of the West. At the time, I was particularly taken with the title track – you really can’t go wrong with epic heavy metal that is lyrically set in Middle Earth. With For […]
A while back we asked the following on our social media platforms: “Mount Olympus – a mythical mountain that still stimulates the fantasy of many artists nowadays. Today we would like to deal with this phenomenon in a figurative sense: Suppose you meet someone who asks you to introduce them to the greatness of Epic […]
